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A family would seriously struggle to live on £45k a year around here Billy. Seriously....you'd be a pauper! No good saying move somewhere cheaper, as people have jobs, family etc that make them want to stay and try and cope with it.

I pop down the Pub on a Thursday night to meet the Blokes and before the last price rise it was £19.75 for five pints of bitter and 1 packet of crisps. If you wanted to have a Pub meal in a basic local, not gastro Pub, you'd struggle to find anything on the mains below £12.

A family would seriously struggle to live on £45k a year around here Billy. Seriously....you'd be a pauper! No good saying move somewhere cheaper, as people have jobs, family etc that make them want to stay and try and cope with it.

We live in Devon...where we have the joyous accolade along with Cornwall of having the largest gap between Pay and Living Expenses.

A typical salary would be around £18 and a typical 2-3 Bed Terrace comes in around the £200-240,000 mark.

Edit Quote from The Echo...Regarding a Government Report.

"The report said the average home in the region costs £228,940, nearly 12 times the average South West wage of £19,713.It said house prices have increased three times faster than incomes during the past decade, and now cost 15 per cent more than in 2005 and 116 per cent more than in 2000.
In Devon, the average home costs £241,575, which is 13.5 times the average income of £17,940, with even homes at the lowest quartile level costing £155,000.
The gross annual income needed to secure a mortgage in Devon is £51,766.
The Federation's 'league table' of least affordable local authority areas in Devon is topped by the South Hams, with homes averaging £323,360, which is 16.7 times the £19,328 average income.
West Devon is fourth, with average houses at £236,610, therefore 13.9 times the £17,061 average income.
Plymouth is 10th, behind Exeter, in ninth, where houses average £206,182, 10.9 times the £18,990 average income."